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Fall 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 4 • Editor's Notes |

Editor’s Notes

Five Years on …

In 2008, after fifteen years of editing these pages, I felt for the first time that we didn’t have enough of them—that we were turning away stories, poems, and essays I yearned to publish in The Kenyon Review. And the backlog was stretching toward a too-distant horizon as well, bulging with literature already accepted. It was time, our team of editors realized, to embrace an innovation we’d anticipated from the early days of the KR Web site: the creation of an electronic literary journal that we came to call KROnline.

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David H. Lynn is the editor emeritus of The Kenyon Review, a professor of English, and special assistant to the president of the college. He was the editor of the Review from 1994 to 2020. As an author, he received a 2016 O. Henry Award for "Divergence." His latest collection, Children of God: New & Selected Stories, was published in 2019 by Braddock Avenue Books.

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